I came across an interesting thought from Vince Lombardi today. He used the phrase “quiet explanation” to describe one aspect of coaching. I facilitated a workshop on mentoring the other day with a variety of ideas for giving feedback, igniting motivation and dealing with poor performance. I would have added ‘quiet explanation’ to my list [...]
For most of our clients the purpose of coaching is to help them achieve some difference between their current situation and a defined future goal. For example, if a client wants to double their income over three years, we take the difference, [i.e. the increase in their income], divide that number by 36 [months] and [...]
In Executive Coaching my clients and I drill down to the bedrock of their opportunity and identify actions they could be taking that would ignite a tipping point for them. These actions tend to be very hard work. I define hard work as doing something unpleasant that moves you toward your goals. In comparison I [...]
Your strategies are the kinds of things you do to achieve your goal. Each strategy employs a number of actions or tactics. Of course you can’t use every possible strategy and all feasible tactics within each strategy. Your tactics usually are action oriented. That is you have to do something and as you do that [...]
